Images and the making of the Russian Empire, 1471-1721 / Valerie A. Kivelson.

Author/creator Kivelson, Valerie A. author.
Format Book
PublicationLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxix, 296 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: The Agency of Images and the Muscovite Imperial Pictosphere -- Imagining Empire: Making Muscovy Imperial -- Explosion of Images : The Litsevoi letopisnyi svod (Illustrated Historical Chronicle) -- Picturing a Place in the World: Between Europe and the Steppe -- Visual Ethnography : Imagining Diversity in the Sixteenth Century -- Seventeenth-Century Changes : Racial Imaginary and the Configuration of Empire -- Looking Across the Battle Lines : Visual Empathy/Visual Violence -- Pictures from the Arctic : The Colonized Draw Back -- Ukrainian Baroque and the Displacement of Muscovite Visual Culture -- Empire Redrawn : Visual Constructions & Disruptions -- Conclusion: A New Scopic Regime.
Abstract "Exploring the visual record of the Muscovite tsardom, this book demonstrates that, in imperial settings, images actually do things. Richly illustrated with 120 arresting, little-known images, it considers how those images functioned as active agents for and against empire. Valerie A. Kivelson tracks the circulation, reception, and the extraordinary consequences of those images in shaping attitudes and the contours of human lives. The book tackles the rise of racialized thinking in a period often thought to be pre-racial and highlights how regions claimed by the tsars, particularly Siberia and Ukraine, shaped the terms of their incorporation through imagery, fundamentally changing the empire in the process"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version http://id.loc.gov/entities/relationships/onlineversion ‡a Kivelson, Valerie A. (Valerie Ann) Images and the making of the Russian Empire, 1471-1721 London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025 9781350516519
Genre/formPictorial works.
LCCN 2025006562
ISBN9781350516496
ISBN135051649X hardcover
ISBN9781350516489 paperback
ISBN1350516481 paperback
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book
ISBNelectronic book